THE STORY BEHIND US

My name is Jyrki and I'm a trader - that is, a holiday trader. I also sell apartments - so I am also a licensed real estate agent and rental agent.

I have ended up as a holiday retailer through my own and my family's entrepreneurial background. I am aiming to retire from this new career of my later life. This post might turn out to be long hardworking one but that doesn't matter. Holidays are just cool to broker.

I do this job because what's better than making people happy and getting a little compensation for it. And you must visit those cabins sometimes for a sleep test, to make sure there are no small stones in the mattress or that dripple from the toilet bowl is not keeping the tenants awake.

The best background for starting a service business is life experience. When you have sold and bought services, given yourself service and welcomed service, you understand where the problem lies sometimes. Then you must swallow one´s pride and do the job better.

Fun fact: A dog-mad animal lover.
Motto: Serve others as you would like to be served.

Tuomas grew up in the Tynkä village of Kalajoki. He spent his childhood and youth in Kalajoki Hiekkasärkkä area with sand in his shoes and sensing the world of tourism at a very early age.

The road took me to Turku to study hotel and tourism at Turku University of Applied Sciences. In Turku, Tuomas also started a hotel career. During the first years of his career, he had time to do everything that can only be done in hotels; restaurant, hotel and sales service management tasks, room cleaning and much more. Almost everything except massage and cosmetology treatments. Tuomas worked in different hotels in Finland as well as in Sweden.

After this, at the turn of the millennium, the fascinating world of hotel and tourism sales and marketing took its course. In 2006 I moved to Helsinki to become A Sales Manager of Sokos Hotels, Radisson Blu and Holiday Club spa hotels, and through twists and turns I joined Kämp Group and e.g. to the Sales Director of the legendary Hotel Kämp.

For ten years, Tuomas worked in international sales and tourism development at the SAS airline company, focusing on business and leisure sales and creating cooperation networks in the Nordic countries, especially in Germany and the UK. Both the broad outlines of tourism and the small details remained under control.

In his free time, Tuomas can most often be found somewhere other than his home. He is an avid traveler and vacationer who always likes to take his friends and family with him. Singing and music are among the basic characteristics of the rather extrovert Tuomas, who always has a twinkle in his eye and is ready for a chat.

Fun fact: Tuomas lost the Finnish Rock & Pop Karaoke Championship in 2005 to Ari Koivunen after finishing second. Ari Koivunen won the Finnish Idols competition in 2007.
Motto: To have dash and courage do not cost anything.

I'm Jemina and I live and breathe Varaamökki.com's social media. I create content there and take you with me on the journey of Varaamökki.com to follow its story. I love traveling and life in all its full spectrum, so this job made for me.

By using social media for communication, I also want to bring you the feeling how we Finns feel and do our domestic traveling in our country and how our foreign guests enjoy Finland, regardless of place and time.

My passion for creating images in marketing stems from my studies in audiovisual communication. After graduating in the media field, I thought about how I can use the many strengths of my own personality and my education as efficiently as possible. My strengths are visuality, graphics, social skills, creating mental images, finding the best aspects of people and things, and communicating them to the world in the right form!

Welcome to follow us on social media and join us on the journey!

My name is Nita and I am an accommodation professional from Kittilä, Northern Finland. My background is in the hotel and accommodation industry, having worked in ski resorts in the north as a front desk, reception and service manager until I became an entrepreneur in late 2021. My long career and experience in the hotel industry has since expanded into the apartment rental and cabin world.

I have been part of the Varaamökki.com team since summer 2023, focusing on developing services, concepts and processes for about one day a week through my own marketing company. My strengths include managing and implementing various systems and online booking channels, as well as producing visual brand materials.

In my work as an accommodation specialist, I assist professional operators and individual resort owners in the overall promotion of sales. Developing the customer experience before, during and after the holiday is close to my heart!

I enjoy flyfishing, mushroom picking and skiing in the winter to balance my work on the computer!

I'm Iina and I joined the Varaamökki.com / Cabin Dreams Oy team in July 2023.

I grew up in Kalajoki surrounded by tourism and later further plans were crystal clear; the tourism industry called for me also workwise! After getting my degree in tourism, I have worked in many positions in the accommodation industry, both in a campsite and in hotels in Kalajoki, Lapland and the capital region. The best thing about the industry is the versatility, and I've done it all, from the restaurant dishcorner to the hotel housekeeping and from receptionist to sales negotiator and reception manager.

In 2016 the burning flame to experience and see more was awakened and I started my career as a tour guide. I worked with different Finnish tour operators in Europe and Africa, both as a guide and as a destination manager. As a result, I also settled in Egypt for few years and returned to Finland in the aftermath of the pandemic at the end of 2021.

During the years abroad the Finnish culture and its special features, such as cottage vacations, have gained a much deeper meaning personally, even though renting cabins has been a familiar activity since childhood. It is really inspiring and interesting to play part in bringing Finnish cottage and leisure apartment rental to present day and beyond and to make it easier to reach for everyone safely and reliably.

Motto: If you have to regret in life, regret the things you've done instead of the things you didn´t do.